Letters: July 13, 2018

Letters: July 13, 2018

A group of Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League referees look at a memorial at the intersection of a fatal bus crash that killed 16 members of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team last week near Tisdale, Sask. on Saturday, April 14, 2018. (Liam Richards/THE CANADIAN PRESS)

Lessons to be learned

Re: Humboldt crash. It has been apparent to anyone who drives the highways regularly that the so-called “Knights of the Road” of the past no longer exist. I have seen semi drivers watching a movie on the computer as they roll along. In Northern Ontario two years ago a truck came towards me with a cat standing on the dash in front of the driver. Standards need to be raised to an acceptable level. Drivers need to be offered the proper training and regulations that will require this. Politicians are now jumping on the bandwagon. It would be refreshing to see a politician actually consider doing something because it’s right and proper, not because it may get you a few votes.

Warren Campbell

Proper training and regulations are essential. Our roads need to be safe.

The current three mainstream political parties are slightly different versions of each other. All representing special interest groups. None represents the majority. There is definitely a need for such a leader and party. To be that, Jagmeet Singh must drop his platform of equality for minorities and adopt a real leftwing agenda of policies for the majority such as pharmacare. In other words, social democracy. It’s doubtful that Singh is capable of that, or like the other two mainstream political parties, interested.

Ben Barone

You want the NDP to go even further to the extreme political left? That’s a terrifying notion.

Heroes

Let’s give a standing ovation to Chief Ignace Gull of Attawapiskat First Nation. At last a chief who takes action to help his people, in this case, by seizing illegal and dangerous drugs that destroy young people’s lives. Ignace Gull should serve as a great example for his community, for other chiefs and bands, and the rest of us as well. Instead of crying: “somebody should do something”, he went ahead and did it. The government still has responsibilities here and should start by deploying police forces to protect Gull and his small force of heroes. If police can’t enter homes to search without a warrant that never arrives in time, they can still be outside ready to intervene if Gull is threatened or attacked as I’m sure he likely will be. Yes, Gull and his volunteers are heroes in my books and deserve an ovation at least as resounding as we gave the Jets.

Ed Lavallee

Attawapiskat is in crisis and its leadership is taking action. It’s good to see.

He-e-e-er’s Justin!

I think I am turning into a wise guru. I would like to say if everything Justin Trudeau says makes no sense and is a ridiculous joke, why doesn’t he have his own laugh track? Examples: “Because it’s 2015.” (Insert 1970s Three’s Company laugh track here.) “The budget will balance itself.” (Laugh track here.) There are just too many to list. But let’s hope the last laugh track is used after Trudeau is gone and at Yuk Yuk’s, trying to get laughs about his legacy, the “Grope & Dope,” but no one will be laughing!

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